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Stranglehold

I really want to play this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranglehold_(video_game)
Plot of the Game
-In modern day Hong Kong, a policeman goes missing. The department is confused by the disappearance until they get a ransom from an unknown source. The kidnappers request that a single officer appear at Kowloon Market. Lee, the chief of police, believes this to be a trap and plans to send in a squad. One officer, Jerry Ying, disqualifies himself from this role, claiming his appearance will blow the cover he's used to infiltrate a Triad group called Dragon Claw. Instead he suggests Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen. He decides to go to Kowloon alone, despite Lee's orders. He is attacked by Triads, proving Lee's hunch correct. After dispatching them, he finds the missing officer's badge, only to find a bullethole through the center, and a picture of the dead officer. While in a standoff with the Triads, Tequila receives a tip that the officer was killed by a group called the Imperial 9s, located in Tai O. While in Kowloon, Tequila stops in a teahouse owned by the Triad called Golden Kane where he gets the drink he is nicknamed after. At one of the tables, the Imperial 9s are making a deal with Golden Kane regarding forged passports. Upon the Golden Kane's reps hearing the man at the bar is a cop, the I9 rep panics and shoots the Golden Kane rep. Shortly after, the I9 is killed by Tequila. Angry the cop broke the deal, the Golden Kane bouncer Kwong Fang attacks Tequila, only to be gunned down. After leaving the teahouse, Tequila informs his boss that he's going to Tai O to investigate more.


-He also throws in that during the deal, he overheard the I9s are working under Dragon Claw. Upon arrival, Tequial asks a local fisherman if he knows anything about the Triad's activity. The fisherman responds that Tai O is under I9 control and that Golden Kane is trying to capture it. He says that the Dragon Claw leader, James Wong, is currently residing on a boat in Tai O. Tequila tracks down Wong and is introduced to the 2 top men, the "large enough to have his own street address" Dapang and Jerry, the undercover officer who Tequila trained. Wong reveals that teh Golden Kane killed the officer and pinned it on the I9s. Tequila, knowing the Dragon Claw to be one of the oldest and biggest Triad groups, asks why Wong has not struck back. His reason is that Golden Kane has allied with a Russian mob group based in Chicago, the Zakarovs, who have kidnapped his daughter Billie and granddaughter Teko. The Russian mob plans to hold them for ransom for a slice of Dragon Claw territory in Hong Kong.


-Since Wong can't directly move against the Zakarovs, he asks Tequila to go retrieve hsi family. He needs a man who isn't affiliated with Dragon Claw but cares enough about Billie and Teko to risk his life for them. Tequila agrees to go find them. After this deal, Golden Kane strikes against Dragon Claw's base in Tai O and Wong charges Tequila with blowing the place to pieces so he can escape. Since it's in police interest, Tequila agrees, planting C4 charges on his way out of Tai O. Before leaving for Chicago, Tequila makes a stop at the Golden Kane owned restaurant Mega, where the Golden Kane leader Yung Yi is holding an internet conference with Damon and Vladimir Zakarov. Seeing the Zakarovs are recognized as philanthropists while having high status in teh underground criminal world, the relatively young and inexperienced Yung plans to head to Chicago himself to see how Zakarov's organization is run. He also mentions Billie and Teko, as Golden Kane is to be the middleman in the fight between the Zakarovs and Dragon Claw. During the conference, Yung's right hand man Ty Lok gets a call that they've got unexpected company, and offers to stay and deal with them while Yung escapes. Angered that Tequila is still alive after Golden Kane's tries on killing him, Yung agrees and exits, where shortly after, Tequila arrives in the conference room and is attacked by Lok, who wields an oversized gun and belt of grenades. Tequila emerges the winner after a fight



-In the Zakarov's penthouse in Chicago, Yung receives word of Lok's death and destruction of the Mega restaurant. He tells the messenger to do a favor for him and kill himself. Following the phone call, Yung is approached by Damon Zakarov, who offers to show him his histroy museum. Bored by this, Yung agrees to go along. As Damon and Yung leave, Vladimir Zakarov glances at a nearby surveillance camera screen and notes 2 men have arrived in the parking garage


-As Tequila and Jerry pull into the garage, Jerry pulls out his phone and texts Wong on the current info, telling Tequila he needs to keep Wong thinking he's working for him. The 2 split up, with Tequila covering the lower floor of the penthouse and Jerry covering the upper floor. This plan goes bad when the voice of Vladimir booms through the penthouse's PA system claiming to have dealt with Tequila's friend. He fights his way through Zakarov's penthouse to the top floor, eventually coming face to face with Vlad and a gauntlet of trip mines. As he makes his way to Zakarov's glass windowed office, Vlad opens fire with a rocket launcher  from the chopper, hovering outside. Tequila shoots Vlad, causing him to fire a rocket into his own chopper. On his way out of the penthouse, Tequila finds a wounded Jerry and helps him out.


-Tequila buys a ticket to the Zakarov's museum, and enters to find Damon and Yung negotiating the exchange of Billie and Teko. Damon changes the plans at the last minute, letting Yung take Teko back to Hong Kong saying he'll bring Billie himself. After a fight between the Zakarov groups and Golden Kane, Yung agrees to leave with Teko. Damon retreats into the museum, holding Billie hostage and Tequila gives chase. He eventually finds and shoots Damon dead in the fossil section. He tearfully reunites with his wife once more, and tells her he was sent by her father to get her. The reunion is cut short when Jerry bursts in and opens fire with 2 guns. Tequila pushs Billie behind him to shield her and open fire, but moves to dodge a bullet, which catches Billie in the chest. Firing like mad, Tequila manages to nick his former friend and partner in the shoulder. Turning to his mortally wounded wife, he holds her as she tells him that the Golden Kane have taken Teko to Hong Kong and asks him to forgive her. With that, Billie dies and an angry Tequila runs through the halls of the museum in search of Jerry.

-When he catches up, Jerry is on a catwalk above am exhibit and firing at him with dual submachine guns. Tequila, breathless, asks him who paid him off, and Jerry says it was the same man who sent Tequila to find her. With that, Jerry takes off running again and Tequila follows closely. The 2 fight, and this does not stop the inspector from gunning down his old friend. As he picks up his partner's phone, Tequila texts Wong with a message claiming to have shot Tequila in the head. With that, he tosses the phone and decides to leave with Yung..

-Tequila finds Yung in his office and immediately sits down to strike a deal. He wants his daughter back, but Yung refuses. With the Russians out of the way, he can now trade Teko to Wong for territory. Tequila tells him he's a fool and shows a text exchange between Wong and Jerry, where the 2 mock how stupid the Golden Kanes are and talk about holding a GK funeral. Tequila further confrims the Dragon Claws' plan by asking Yung if Wong set the time and place for the exchange. Yung replies. Tequila tells him to change it and offers to interfere on Golden Kane's behalf, so that this way, he gets his daughter and his revenge and Golden Kane can pick up the pieces of what Dragon Claw left behind and everyone wins. Yung agrees to this and calls Wong o change the location of the meeting to his old neighborhood in Kowloon

-In the slums of Kowloon, the meeting goes down as planned. The only thing; Tequila is not on time. Yung is forced to improvise, and is unable to stall Dragon Claw until Tequila arrives. As his men bring out Teko from a nearby temple, he arrives. Tequila bursts from an alleyway and yells at him for being unable to hold them off. Wong is startled to see him alive after the text 'Jerry' sent him. He escapes with Teko and Tequila breaks the standoff by chasing Dapang guns Yung down and escapes

-Tequila steals a nearby car and chases Wong to his mansion, but is forced to deal with his security. Wong's men wield a variety of weapons ranging from rocket launchers to throwing knives to helicopter gunships. After Tequila shoots down a helicopter, it crashes through the locked front door. Tequila enters Wong's inner mansion to find the man looking at him through a sniper's rifle scope from a balcony and Dapang wielding two pump action shotguns. Tequila takes down Dapang and Wong pins him down with the rifle. As Wong lines up his hopefully fatal shot on Tequila, Teko moves behind him and shoves hom over the balcony. As teh father and daughter reunite, Chief Lee arrives and returns Tequila's badge, which he had earlier taken away for insubordination. Tequila and Teko leave the scene.

Gangs

Anna and the King

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_and_the_King
Plot
-Anna Leonowens(Jodie Foster) is an English schoolteacher who is a widow who has come to Siam with her son Louis(Tom Felton) to teach English to the 68 royal children of Rama IV(Chow Yun-fat).She is strong willed, intelligent, and this pleases the King, who wants to modernize the country to keep it safe from the threat of colonialism, while protecting many of the ancient traditions that has given Siam it's uniqueness. In order to win the favor of Britain, the King orders a sumptuous reception, and orders Anna to organize it. During the reception, the King verbally talks with Sir Kincaid(Bill Stewart), of East India Company, who accuses Siam of being a superstitious nation. At the end, the King dances with Anna

-Anna is enchanted by the royal children, particularly Princess Fa-Ying(Melissa Campbell). The littel girl identifies with the spirit of the playful monkeys who live in the trees of the royal garden. When suddenly she contracts cholera, Anna is asked to her chambers to give her a final farewell. She gets there just as Fa-Ying dies in Mongkut's hands and the 2 mourn the loss together. Later on, when the King finds out that one of the monkeys has "borrowed" his glasses, as his daughter used to do, he is consoled in his belief in reincarnation and the idea that Fa-Ying may be reborn as one of her beloved animals. Lady Tuptim(Bai Ling), the King's new favorite concubine, was already engaged when brought to the court. The King is kind to her, but she is unhappy and at last runs away, disguising herself as a young man and joining the monastery where her former fiancee, Khun Phra Balat(Sean Ghazi) lives. She is initially caned along with her Balat. She is tracked down and brought back to the palace, where she is imprisoned and initially caned along with Balat. However, because of Anna's outburst during this, Tuptim and Balat are beheaded in front of the entire court, despite the well held belief that the sentence is unfair in order to keep a reputation.

-The political aspects of the story are completely fictional; Siam is under siege from what looks like a British-funded coup d' etat against King Mongkut, using Burmese soldiers. Mongkut sends out his brother Prince Chaofa(Kay Siu Lim) and his military advisor General Alak(Randall Duk Kim) to investigate. However, it turns out that Alak is the man behind things and he turns on Chaofa and kills him. He flees to Siam into Burma where he summons and readies his troops to invade Siam and kill the King and his kids. With the help of Anna, the King manages to hide his kids and wives in a safe place, then goes to face Alak. The King and soldiers place high explosives on a wooden bridge high above the a canyon floor, as Alak and his army approach. The King orders his "Army" to stay back and rides to the bridge with only 2 soldiers. Alak, in front of his army, confront the King on the bridge

-Anna and Louis then create a brilliant deception from their hiding spot in the forest; Louis then uses his horn to replicate the sound of a bugle charge, as Anna "attacks" the area with harmless fireworks. The decoy works as the Burmese, believing the King has brought British soldiers, retreat in panic. Alak attempts to recall them, but does not work. He stands alone, but the King refuses to kill him, saying Alak shall have to live with his shame. As the King turns to ride back, Alak picks up a gun and aims at the King, but the explosives detonate, blowing the bridge to pieces and Alak along with it.

-Towards the end, the King has one last dance with Anna and realizes it's conceivable for one man to be pleased by only one woman. Anna returns to England with Louis. The King's son takes over and ends slavery.




Cast

The Corruptor

Love this movie too!!! Then again, anything with Jet Li, Sylvester Stallone or Chow Yun-fat in it I'll watch. Those 3 have got to be the cutest actors EVER!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corruptor
Plot
-NYPD Lt. Nick Chen(Chow Yun-fat) is one of many New York police officers. He's also head of the Asian Gang Unit. His job entails him keeping the peace in Chinatown frmo a turf war that has started between the Triads, the Tong and the dangerous Fukienese Dragons, a problem only made worse by the fact that he is also an informant for the Tongs under "Uncle" Benny Chan(Kim Chan) and his Lt. Henry Lee(Ric Young). After a bombing in downtown Chinatown in broad daylight, Chen is hesitantly teamed with Danny Wallace(Mark Wahlberg), who is severely unaware of the situation. Also, Danny was secretly tasked by Internal Affairs to monitor Chen for corruption. Danny lied to Chen and the Asian Gang Unit b y claiming he took the job as a means to get his Detective shield the fastest

-During a raid on a Fukienese whorehouse, Chen saves Danny's life. Danny, knowing that his life is now in the hands of Chen, promptly initiates a bust on a drug operation, not knowing that there was an undercover FBI agent present as well.  After being berated by the FBI for interfering, Danny is introduced to Henry. He then discusses the potential value of having another cop in the Asian Gang Unit on the Tong payroll, which Uncle Benny allows. One day, Benny is able to lure Danny into working for him by tipping him off to an underground prostitution ring. Danny, after stopping the operation, is given a commendation for valor, but Chen now suspects that Danny, like him, is working for the Tongs

-Eventually, Wallace begins to work for Henry Lee(Ric Young) of the Tongs after finding that Chen has been doing the same. They cross paths while doing this throwing their trust to the wind. Chen hates the Fukienese with a passion, but neither he nor Wallace know that Henry Lee is secretly forming a partnership with their head leader Bobby Vu(Byron Mann), a relationship that results in them ousting Uncle Benny after tipping off their Hong Kong associates that he is cooperating with the FBI. By this time, Henry and Bobby know there is an FBI agent undercover in their drug operations and despite Nick's idea to 'leak' the operation and have him pulled, decide to simply kill him.


He looks good in uniform. [insert little hearts]
 -One day, while monitoring a drug sting, Danny and Nick witness a Tong hit squad and it leads to a violent confrontation that leads to Nick getting berated for botching the FBI investigation. After that, both Danny and Nick swear to not talk to the FBI without talking to each other first. Unfortunately, the FBI find out Danny's real reason for his position with the Asian Gang Unit and threaten to expose him unless he is willing to spy on Nick for them. When one of Nick's informants witnesses firsthand the murder of Uncle Benny at the hands of Bobby under orders from Henry, he alerts Nick who then tells the District Attorney because she is looking to indict the Tongs under the RICO Act. The DA, the FBI, and both Wallace and Chen decide they want to catch Bobby in the act and decide to hold off on arrests.



-Unfortunately, Henry at the time chooses to alert Chen of Wallace's real identity and job, leaving him to decide whether or not to kill Wallace to prevent him getting arrested. During the nighttime operation, Wallace is injured and while trying to protect an elderly woman, is left vulnerable to be killed by Bobby. Nick pushes Danny out of the way and is hit by the bullet meant for Danny. While at the hospital, the FBI is furious that Danny did not reveal Chen's corruption due to the fact that his leaking of info led directly to the death of an undercover FBI agent. Danny refused to withdraw his original statement telling them that Nick was a good cop and died a good cop, but Nick dies to his injuries. Sometime later, Danny is seen leading the arrest of Henry under the information Nick's informant gave them. Nick is given a hero's funeral and Wallace is seen in the procession.

Cast

The Replacement Killers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Replacement_Killers
Plot
-John Lee(Chow Yun-fat) is a hit man for a Chinese Triad boss named Wei(Kenneth Tsang). His assignment: kill the 7 year old son of an L.A. cop named Stan 'Zeedo' Zedkov(Michael Rooker), who happened to have killed Wei's son during a police shootout. Lee finds his conscience will not allow this and his Triad boss retaliates by threatening Lee's family back in China and also threatening to send killers after him and killers to kill the child. 











-Desparate to return and protect his family, he turns to forger Meg Coburn(Mira Sorvino) to give him a new forged passport. But Wei's men track him down and they shoot up her office before sh can complete the passport. Now Coburn and Lee are on the run, outrunning new hitmen and the police while trying to save Lee's family back in China.
Cast



Chow Yun-fat in photos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chow_Yun-fat_filmography

The Corruptor- Nick Chen







Bulletproof Monk- Monk with No Name





Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End- Sao Feng





The Replacement Killers- John Lee





Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- Li Mu Bai





Dragonball Evolution- Muten Roshi